What was your very own first camera?

[jamais]

Yashica FX-D Quartz with ML 2/50. I sold both a year later but still own the Contax 167MT which was given to me by my father one day, when he went digital. I bought an ML 2/50 for it again, out of nostalgia...

 

[jet1944]

brownie 127 it cost me 7/6d when I was 7 in 1954

 

[lxmike]

I was a proud Pentax owner. (ME Super purchased in 80)

Great to see Pentax is among the early leaders in this poll.

my second camera and my first slr, a pentax MV in 1981

happy memories happy days

 

[bsdunek]

Kodak Brownie Target SIX-20. My Grandfather gave it to me for my 8th birthday (that would have been in 1947) I still have it and it works perfectly. I took hundreds of photos with it until my Dad gave me a Voigtlander Baby Bessa 6X6 when I was 14.

 

[maggieo]

Mine was a Kodak Instamatic 110 that I was given as an X-mas present while in the 6th grade. It was just like this one, complete with the personalized stickers.

I think I threw it out some time in the mid 1980's after upgrading to a used Brownie Holiday Flash 620 film camera.

That's my first camera EXACTLY! When the flag sticker fell off, I replaced it with a race car, IIRC.

Mine was replaced with this:


Canonet QL-17 GIII, January, 2010 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr

 

[splitimageview]

I got an Instamatic 126 at a camera store in Dexter, Michigan when I was about 11. My first 'real' camera was a Konica Auto S2, which I still have...

 

[Harryo1962]

My first was an Argus C3. I never got a single photo to come out from that thing. But the bug was set, and I moved on to Kodak 126's. First good camera was a Nikkormat @ 1977 bought from Wall St. Camera in NYC. Got stolen in Munich.

 

[alienmeatsack]

I don't remember honestly. I know I shot photos with an assortment of cameras as a kid. But the one I do remember was a 60's Miranda Sensorex that my Dad gave me when I was in High School. I shot a lot of film, all B/W, developed it at home in our darkroom, made my own prints, the whole thing.

The coolest thing is, I just got it back from my youngest brother before Christmas of last year. I have everything I had back then from the body, 50mm lens, to the 200mm lens, the 2x adapter and all the filters from polarizing, close up, and color filters. I had to do a minor repair to get it working correctly again but I've already shot with it several times since.

 

[jarski]

3mpix Sony DSC-P52, back in 2004, while on work trip in Kuala Lumpur. Hunger grew rapidly from there.

Soon one full decade of taking digital photos. Might celebrate anniversary by having some of them printed 😛

 

[azryal]

Olympus OM-1

 

[BardParker]

Kodak Instamatic 44. My parents bought it for me about 1968.

126 film

Flashcubes

 

[lawrence]

A Kodak Brownie 127 given to me for my ninth birthday in 1959. I gave it to a camera museum.

 

[lawrence]

brownie 127 it cost me 7/6d when I was 7 in 1954

Snap! A great first camera!

 

[danielsterno]

Polaroid Swinger - just shot B&W if I remember. got that before my first Kodak instamatic ... wish I had both- like all of us

 

[BW400CN]

First cam I´m allowed to use: my fathers Zeiss Ikon Contina IIa - he still has it.

First cam I got given: My mothers Agfa Isola II - I still have it but it´s broken.

First cam I bought with own money: Canon AE-1P in 1982 - lost my silver one in an accident arround 1990 and bought a used black one which I still have.

 

[tarullifoto]

I bought a Pentax K1000 when I was about 14 years old. I owned it until well into my twenties.

It got stolen during a break-in at my parents' home, but the police managed to recover it. I had it for years after that, and lost it, along with all the rest of my equipment, when my own house was burglarized.

That was a piece of kit I knew intimately. It took years to get used to the Nikon F100 and Tamron 80-200mm that replaced it.

Still miss it in many ways.

 

[Sid836]

My first camera (if this counts as a real camera) was a Civica RX-7:


Civica RX-7 by Nikos.K., on Flickr

 

[jagwar.jim]

Vivitar 35EE! But it wasn't a working camera (couldn't get batteries when I got it). My dad gave it to me when I was about 5 years old to play with, I still have it today! (I'm now 24)

 

[jenquest]

Around 2000, a Pentax MZ-7. It was a gift from my brother. All plastic but it was light and small which meant I took it everywhere with me and so a general interest in photography turned into something of a passion.

 

[ShinX414]

excluding some disposable cameras, the first i bought for myself was the Samsung NV24HD back in 2010 (my gf broke it when i lent it to her in 2011 but i couldn't dispose it since there are so many memories i share with that cam)